Journal profile · Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health
BMJ Mental Health
ISSN 2755-9734 · BMJ Publishing Group · United Kingdom
BMJ Mental Health: CAS Zone 1 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 6.6 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 118 days to acceptance (100 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 15% (journal website); 142 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
BMJ Mental Health is published by BMJ Publishing Group and is in Zone 1 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Schizophrenia research and treatment, Mental Health Treatment and Access and Digital Mental Health Interventions, together about 31.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Psychiatry and Mental health and Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
BMJ Mental Health (formerly Evidence-Based Mental Health) is an open access, peer reviewed journal publishing evidence-based, innovative research, systematic reviews, and methodological papers in the area of mental health. It facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration among psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals, encourages debate on clinically relevant topics, and informs real world practice to improve patient and carer outcomes. BMJ Mental Health invites submissions in all areas of mental health including digital health; medical statistics; precision mental health; evaluation of psychotherapies; studies in children, young people and in the elderly; forensic psychiatry; health economics; data science and computational mental health. Its companion title, BMJ Connections Mental Health, publishes the full spectrum of robust, reproducible, original research including negative results and small and specialist studies. For information about BMJ Mental Health’s Editor-in-Chief Professor Andrea Cipriani and his editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health
Editor-in-chief Andrea CiprianiPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Schizophrenia research and treatmentMedicine10.7%
- Mental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology10.4%
- Digital Mental Health InterventionsPsychology9.9%
- Suicide and Self-Harm StudiesPsychology7.2%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology6.7%
- Treatment of Major DepressionMedicine6%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology4.9%
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderMedicine4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ESCIWeb of ScienceMEDLINEPMCEmbaseCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Index Medicus, Google Scholar
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 6.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 6.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 8.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 8.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.83LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.42LetPub ·
- h-index
- 26OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 110OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.37OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 128LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 393 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 94 | 94 | 47 |
| 2025 | 142 | 142 | 740 |
| 2024 | 88 | 88 | 954 |
| 2023 | 68 | 68 | 1,690 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
118 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 87 days – 154 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 24 days (100 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 147 days
- Sample
- 100 articles with submission and acceptance dates (259 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 15%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 1 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 19 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | GBP 3,580 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| LetPub | GBP 3,245 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 3,090 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
BMJ Mental Health is a fully open access and online journal. By submitting to this journal you agree to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) of £3,090 if your article is accepted for publication.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2755-9734
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about BMJ Mental Health
What CAS zone is BMJ Mental Health in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, BMJ Mental Health is in Zone 1 of Medicine, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Psychiatry; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of BMJ Mental Health?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 6.6; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 8.3, h-index 26.
How long does peer review take at BMJ Mental Health?
Based on the dates recorded on 100 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 118 days (interquartile range 87–154 days); authors report an average review time of about 16 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 15% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index BMJ Mental Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, BMJ Mental Health is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ESCI, Web of Science, MEDLINE, PMC, Embase and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is BMJ Mental Health open access, and what is the APC?
BMJ Mental Health is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .